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The Lancaster News. j Semi-Weekly. , ? Published Wednesdays and Saturdays At Lancaster, S. C., By The Lan<?ster Publishing Company. Charles T. Connors, Editor. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1.50 ' Si* Months 75 Three Months 10 Payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, tlrst user lion. ft.00. Each subsequent insertion 50 '-ents. For three months or Ion per. reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, $12. Business notices. Transient Advertisements, Lost and Found, and other classified a veritsenients not exceeding 25 words, 35 cents for each insertion: I cent a word for ekch additional word over 2"> words. Obituaries. Tributes of resnect. cards of thanks and all matter of a personal or political nature to be charged for. Advert'sinc rates by the column made known on application. Mrief correspondence on subjects of sroneral , Interest invited. Not responsible for views of eorresponden ts. U. E. WYLIE, Pit esi DENT. J NO. a COOK, Sf.c'y. and Tiikas. J. M. RIDDLE, .lit . Business Manackk. Entered at the postofbee at r ancastor, S C.. as second-class mat' matter, Oct. 4. 1P0>. Saturday, November 4, 1905. .MORE BOUQUETS FOR THE NEWS. Among the letters complimentary to The News received this week are several from most excellent judges of a good newspa per. Mr. .J. S. Gladre.v, general manager of the Screven County Oil Mills, of Georgia, writes : "Inclosed find check for $1.50 for mv Fiihset i nl ion to The I.nn caster News. I would not be without your paper. I like The News. You certainly have made an improvement." Mr. F. (). London, manager of Celders European Hotel, Atian ta, Ua? in subscribing to The News, writes : "Allow me to congratulate you on such a nice paper as is The News. It has my best wish es for its success." Mrs. Clara C. Edwards, of Rutherford College, N. ('., says : " Plflflsp find HHiiiPW ni'floi" mi. closed lor $1.50 for The Lancaster News It is a fine paper and i a welcome visitor to my home." < Mr. W.J. Vaughn, of Heath Springs, in paying Thursday for , a year's subscription to The i News, remarked : "The paper is a'l right?just . what. I wanted it to be, and 1 don t, see how it could be made any better." ====== j THE FIGHT AGAINST LIQUOR. J The News recently urged organized action to suppress liquor selling in the county. It is 1 scarcely necessary, therefore to ' state that the organization ol the Anti-Liquor League here , last Monday has this paper's hearty endorsement. As is known to at least some j of the readers of The News? those who were patrons of the old Review?the writer fought 1 prohibition in the recent dis- 1 pensary?prohibition campaign, for reasons not necessary now to state, but, while his views l have undergone no change, he | rpnorrnizps t.he ricrht. of t.hp mn "O? " , jorify to rule. And he now feels it to be his duty to do all in his power to help carry out the will of the majority as expressed in the late election. Such is also the munifest duty of all others who voted on the losing side. 1 The people have declared most * emphatically for prohibition, 1 ? . J :l L 1 md prohibition they should iav?, if such a thing can be nade possible. The prohibitory eature of the dispensary law is low in effect in Lancaster county, or rather it is applicable to thiscounty, but to make it effective every law-abiding citizen must do his duty. The blind tiger, the most contemptible of all law violators, must be pur- , sued with relentless vigilance. The officers of the law will be powerless to keep the tiger down without the active and moral support of the people themselves. And the people can best lend their aid through the medium of an organization such as that formed heie this week. Let every citizen in the county, therefore, who believes in the maintenance of law and ouler, and especially the law against the selling of liquor, attei-d the mass meeting to be held at the court house next Monday, for the purpose of etxending the work of the Anti-Lquor League into every township and into every community. BHOUGHTON VS DIXON. Critics of "The Clansman" are keeping the author, Tom Dixon, in hot water. lie does not get through answering one attack on his play before he has to meet another, llis latent clash was in Atlanta this week with Dr. Broughton, the well known divine of that city. According to the Atlanta Journal, Dr. Broughton, in the course of a sermon preached by him Tuesday night, said of "The Clansman" that it was "horn in hell and operated by the devil.'* Replying to Br Broughton, through the press, Mr. Dixon ssiitl : "I was a Baptist minister lor twelve years and preached twice ( every Sunday during that time. The work I did as a preacher was insignificant and unimportant 1 compared to the work I am now loing as a dramatist. I ' My play, 'The Clansman," is , the moat important moral deed ol my lite. Before the throne of the Eternal God, I will stand beside ' Dr. Broughton or any other Bap- i list preacher with that manuscript i in my hand, and say to the Judge i>t the Earth, with reverence, with joy and pride: 'This is my work. I did it. * "I am amazed beyond measure, ' I hat a man of l)r Broughton's \ common sense should have made | itie idiotic statement quoted. I must think the reporter trot it ' mixed. ' "Any preacher who today op ! poses his church members going i io a decent, thoughtful play, is a | tool and a stumbling block in the way of intelligent religion frJlru ,,q\/ nn ution lion to such rot. My friend should repent and tall in line with the progress of religion and culture." Mr. pixon will no doubt hear 1 from I)r. Broughton again, for the latter is a tighter from Fighters irille. ? Born, Nov. 3, 1905, to Mr ind Mrs. Roy Strait, a son. ?Mr. J. L. Bird, of Kershaw, and ' j diss Annie Jenkins, of Rock Hill, , vere married in the latter city < ast Wednesday. i Russia's Freedom WThat the Czar's Manifesto Means?"A Constitutional Monarcyh, with a Legislature Elected by the People." The Atlanta Journal. The manifesto issued yesterday by tlie''autocrat ot all the Russian"? Leaves Russia without an autocrat. The czar directs his ministers to carry out the to'.lowing le lorms: "Firs*?To extend to the popul: ti >n the in mutable foundations of liberty, based on the real inviolability of person, freedom ot conscience, speech, union and association. "Second?Witliout suspending the already ordered elections to the state douma, to invite parti cipalion in the douma, so tar as the limited time belore the con vocation of the douma wili per mi*, those classes ot the popula lion now completely deprived ol electoral rights, leaving the ulti male development ol the electoral right in general to the newly established legislative order of i hings. "Third?to establish an unchangeable rule that, no law shall be enforceable without the approval of the State Douma and that it shall be possible for the elected of the people to exercise real participation in the supervision ot the legality ol the acts ot the authorities appointed by us. In short, today linds Russia no longer a despotism but practical Iv a constitutional monarchy, with a legislature elected by the people. Liberty ban come to the Russian masses alter decades ut oppression and slavery. lint will ibev know bow to use ii ? A constitutional assembly was lorced Irom l be Burbons also. But tbe taste of blood was in ho throats of the people. A1 though they had obtained more than I hey asked tor in the be{inning, they asked lor still more tud more. They plunged France in anarchy. Must Russia pass through the <ame experience? Or is the jonservative element there strong enough to curb the "reds" and LTasp and use the immense tangible good which has already been gained? Are t lie masses wise enough to see that they have gained all they can put to use already, and strong enough to lorego a revenge? If the Russian people have the strength and wisdom to take what they have won and use it wisely now, without further bloodshed or rioting, it must be said of them that they are one of I he greatest people the world has ever known. Four Clerks Dismissed. Washington,?S ecretar y Hitchcock ordered the dismissal [>f four clerks in the pension bureau accused of lending money it usurous rates of interest. The names are Geo. S. Sullivan, Geo. 3. Livingston, Joshur R Hayes ind Geo. II. Marble. L. His Pipe Shot. Unusual Experience of a Rock Hill Lad?M oral: Don't Smoke at All. Rock Hill Herald, Nov. lBt. A Rock Hill boy had a rather strange and unusual experience the other day. Lie had just | finished his noonday meal and | seated himself on the porch of i his boarding house to enjoy his ' pipe along with a friend. lie filled his pipe with tobacco he carried loose in his coat pocket, 'applied a match and after taking several draws and as he held the pipe in his hand tlu re was a loud report, a bullet struck the ceiling overhead and the pipe was blown from the smoker's 'hand by the explosion. Alter recovering from fhe shock I he young man turned to his triend and asked, "are you shot?" The reply came, "are you shot?" A 22 ealibie riHe cartridge which t lie young man had carelessly dropped in his pocket was put in 1 tiie pipe along with the tobacco and the smoker was not a ./are that he was smoking a combina tion until the exnlosinn occurred IT Barber Saves the Bank. (Jorry, Pa.,?Four robbers en lerod the village of Saegtown early yesterday morning, lorced the door to bank ol Slocum, Dechman & Co., an i endeavored to blow open the vault. The explosion awakened Tremont Shorts. I be village barber. lie got. his revolver and opened tire on the rot bera, who beat, a re 11 -eat. The roboer.s had two buggies awaiting them, and into these they leaped and, shooting right and lelf, drove toward Titusville. I I Business Notices. fJ^T" All Notices inserted under tins head at the rate of ONE CENT A WOKD for each insertion. No notice to be counted less than 25 words LVl I) u A T ? ! ? _ ruiv nnnri ?oilier DfWlll^ AIA'chine in good condition?has been recently overhauled and is as good as new. Apply to.S. T. Itlaokmon. DR J J.. IIAGINS, Optician, will be in Kershaw Nov. 8th and Heath Springs nth and 10th, fitting glasses. Examination free. I WILL have fresh oysters Friday and Saturday of this week. S. T. Blackmon. Professional Cards TATTM T ? \XT T~* T T T J W I I IN I".. VVCLSn, DENTIST, Lancaster, S. C. Office Up stairs in Mason ic Building. DENTISTRY. DR. R. M. GALLOWAY, Surgeon Dentist. Office Up-stairs in Ganson Building. DR. R. G. ELLIOTT, Lancaster, S. C. Residence 'phone, No. ',187. Office, Davis Building,cor. Main and Dunlap street*; 'phone No. 72. Will practice in both town and county. All calls, day or night, will receive prompt attention. . i / PRESIDENT PAUL MORTON Outlining the policy of the new management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in an address delivered before a Convention of Equitable Agents, among other things says : "Already there has been a saving in the administration of your Society amounting to approximately $600,000 perannum. This equals 4 per cent, on an investment of $15,000,000. This is the equivalent to having $15,000,000 more 4 percent, bonds in our vaults. There will be other economies, and I can only repeat that retrenchment and conservative management is going to be our policy. I have great ambitions for the Equitable. 1 want it to be not only the greatest and the best but the safest and most conservative life insurance institution in the land. I want it to be the one that the agents will like the very best to work for. I want it to be the one that bankers and people who have securities for sale can feel that they will always get a square deal from. I want it to be the one that policyholders will recommend their friends to insure in and that everybody can point to with pride. 1 want it to be known, not only as the strongest financially, but the strongest morally." Moral : Insure in the Equitable Life, "Strongest in the World." W. B. Knight, ? Special Agent, ? LANCASTER, S. C. flUlLES AND HORSES The Best Ever ! A car load of the finest Mules and Horses ever seen in Lancaster was received by us today. I-very animal was carefully selected in person by our Mr. TiMliflM nil tllfi Woutorn Iiinntolia this week. Call and see the beauties. HEATH-ELLIOTT MULE CO. Nov. 3, 1905. ? ? I I ??II I I II I I ^ NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that the honks for the registration of the qualified electors of the Town of Lancaster will be open for the registration of qualified electors at the office of the Treasurer of the County of Lancaster in the Court House every Monday in each week commencing Monday Nov. 6th 1905, and con- rf tinning until Monday Dec. 4th 1906 inclusive. A McManus, Simervianr Howiilniion Oct. 31st 1905 NoticeNotice is hereby given that the tax books of the town of Lancaster, S. C, will be open for the collection of taxes on the 1st day of November, 1906, at the office of the town Treasurer, 4 and all taxes remaining unpaid on th* 1st day of December. 1906, pur- ^ suant to .Section 1 of the Supply Bill of 1906, will be subject to a penalty of * 16 per cent for the non-payment of the same, together with cost. K K. Wyi.IK, Oct. 10, 1906. Mayor. ?? ????????.? r* MONEY TO LOAN I am prepared, as usual, to negotiate loans, on improved cotton farms, In sums of S900 0* ana upwaron ror nve years. Internal at 7 per cent on tturna of 11,000.00 nnd over. Under 1,000 00, 8 per cent. Intereat. No brokerage or comminHlon churned?only a reasonable fee for abatraet of t't'e. It. E. WYLIE, Attorney at Law.